Re: How are things going?

2006-09-27 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 21:13:23 +0200, Nicolas François wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 03:53:06AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > I'm rather worried that there's been no apparent progress on getting > > Ian's Breaks support merged in, especially since in my limited > > understanding it's already prese

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:13:23PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: > > I'm rather worried that there's been no apparent progress on getting > > Ian's Breaks support merged in, especially since in my limited > > understanding it's already present in Ubuntu and presumably being used > > there. That d

How to deal with teTeX's and texlive's RC licensing bugs

2006-09-27 Thread Frank Küster
Dear release team, dear fellow TeX maintainers, [Executive Summary: Being in the process of contacting upstream authors, should we rather fix the bugs early and maybe overreact, or wait?] as you probably know, the teTeX[1] packages have a couple of RC bugs[2] because documentation or runtime fi

NEW queue processing

2006-09-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
I'm getting anxious about NEW queue processing (I know, I know) with the release coming up. I really want to get lilypond 2.8 into etch, but it can't go until guile 1.8 is available, and it's currently at the two week mark. Will there be any allowance in setting the freeze for this? Thomas --

Would an ABI change of apt for DDTP support still be accepted?

2006-09-27 Thread Luk Claes
Hi Release Team :-) Would you still accept an ABI change of apt to support description translations into etch? Below is the conversation between a user, debian-i18n and one of the apt maintainers... in short Debian i18n Task Force would love to have it, the maintainer thinks it's ready though wan

Re: How to deal with teTeX's and texlive's RC licensing bugs

2006-09-27 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, I should always go riding my bike *before* writing long e-mails. I always get the best ideas when moving my legs. Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a) Either remove all problematic files from the orig.tar.gz right now, >with the option to add them again later [...] > The good th

Re: Would an ABI change of apt for DDTP support still be accepted?

2006-09-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 07:13:21PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Would you still accept an ABI change of apt to support description > translations into etch? I gather that "ABI change" means an soname change? In that case, no, sorry, I think it's too late in the release cycle to be changing this for

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-27 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 04:23:00 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > So I've unblocked it after reviewing the changelog. Thanks. > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 01:09:26PM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I've created a diff[2] with the new commited stuff and removed all > > autogenerated things (I've not remo

Re: How are things going?

2006-09-27 Thread Nicolas François
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 04:23:00AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > BTW, with the changes to scripts/dpkg-architecture.pl, does something fix > the dpkglibdir and pkgdatadir paths when installing this script? Yes, the Makefile fixes all the dpkglibdir and pkgdatadir variables during the build. So

Re: How to deal with teTeX's and texlive's RC licensing bugs

2006-09-27 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Frank, On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 06:14:17PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > With the freeze coming nearer, I am unsure how to deal with this. I > currently see two options: > a) Either remove all problematic files from the orig.tar.gz right now, >with the option to add them again later > b) O

Re: Would an ABI change of apt for DDTP support still be accepted?

2006-09-27 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 07:13:21PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > >> Would you still accept an ABI change of apt to support description >> translations into etch? > > I gather that "ABI change" means an soname c

Re: Would an ABI change of apt for DDTP support still be accepted?

2006-09-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 02:35:19AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 07:13:21PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > >> Would you still accept an ABI change of apt to support description > >> translations into etch? > > I gather that "ABI change" means an soname change? In that cas